Dan Meyer

me, next to a power box with a "Math 4ever" sticker on it.

Happy summer to all who celebrate! <3

Me too. Like a momentary crisis of confidence.

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Via Dylan Kane's recent post - thanks for the resource! Fun puzzles. 👇 bsky.app/profile/unso...

Those are so fun.

A scan of a printed warmup with the instructions to “pick three different numbers for x and then evaluate them for both expressions in the table. One expression is 2x - 3 and the other is 2x - 4 + 1. The student gets the same value for both because they are equivalent.

I taught a seventh grade lesson on equivalent expressions last week and did something Not Very Nice on the warm-up.

A prompt to “Count by 2’s” and shade in the squares on a 10 by 10 grid from 1 to 100. My kid has shaded in squares individually from 2,4, … 16, and then at 18 he starts shading the entire columns of numbers with 8 in the units digit.

Big fan of the Beast Academy books. Can you spot the exact moment here where my kid had an epiphany?

Correct answers are rewarded immediately with a double row of dots!

This is the work!

🎯 "Because the chatbot relies on the student to do all the work of exposing what they know, don't know, and aren't sure about. Students don't enjoy that."

I'm curious how they'll appeal that section. My understanding is they really DON'T do curriculum. I don't think Khan Academy would call itself a curriculum. Curriculum generally requires teachers for implementation.

I'm telling myself I am not allowed to read the full rejection letter until I get my work done but I don't know who I think I am kidding.

"While a single deficiency would be grounds for denial, the Department has identified deficiencies in all five of the required criteria." Gotta apply some aloe after reading this denial letter.

Pennsylvania denies AI cyber charter school application Unbound Academy promised students would learn “twice as fast” with AI tutors instead of traditional teachers. The state of Pennsylvania said the school did not provide enough evidence to support that.

Good. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...

Great newsletter from @ddmeyer.bsky.social today. Asked about the choices edtech companies make, Meyer said, “You either bet on teachers or you bet on software, and if you bet on software, you eventually learn you have to build a teacher.” (Note: He does not believe that they can build a teacher.)

@ddmeyer.bsky.social is still one of the most thoughtful and interesting voices in edtech, even years after I've lost basically all interest in edtech

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I wrote about the difficulty of trying to make a better teacher out of AI like Khanmigo. (Also, 24 hours after I posted this, Khan Academy changed Khanmigo, but didn't fix it.) danmeyer.substack.com/p/in-edtech-...

A testimonial from a teacher named "Michelle" - "EnkeyAl is really valuable in helping me cater my lessons to expand across various learning styles and keeps lessons interesting and fun."

A stock photography website featuring Michelle in ... exactly the same pose as the testimonial.

Something that makes me really sad is seeing the teachers who write the testimonials on AI edtech products having to get second jobs as stock photography models. Teachers like "Michelle (8th Grade Teacher)" deserve a living wage!

"I'm just telling you what someone told me!" Annoying when it's my uncle forwarding me an email. Inexcusable for a university prof IMO.

Two Big Studies on AI in Education Just Dropped Here is what they do and don’t say about teaching, learning, and technology.

Chatted about it. danmeyer.substack.com/p/two-big-st...

It's been a privilege getting to call you a co-worker for a few years, Chris. Best of luck with your next.

I'm moving to San Diego to make you partner with me in a community way.

Yep - I'll be chatting about that study & two others in this next week's newsletter.

Yeah okay I'm in.

The Tutors Are Too Nice Reviewing predictions from 2024 and making new ones for 2025.

Apparently just responding with "idk" over and over can trick an AI tutor into solving a math problem for you... Good to know! @ddmeyer.bsky.social

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The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI” They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They have replaced poor kids with rich kids.

The Unbound Academy grift as summarized by @ddmeyer.bsky.social includes this self-dealing: "It is a conflict of interest, then, that 100% of Unbound Academy’s named board members are affiliated with th[e] vendors" whose services the board is paying for with public dollars.

Excellent analysis of the 'AI' school that kept popping up on my feeds.

#edtech #aiineducation #edusky

The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI” They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They have replaced poor kids with rich kids.

Good read from @ddmeyer.bsky.social danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

Not the Right Kind of Provocation education coverage remains captured by orthodoxy on the left, right, and center

Feels like deBoer on education might be an interesting read for you here. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/not-the-ri...

The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI” They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They have replaced poor kids with rich kids.

Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AI, as they claim. Their 2x learning in 2hrs, as far as I can tell, comes from replacing poor kids with rich kids. Coming to a state near you. Keep an eye out. More here. 👇
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